The Magical Village of Drave: Portugal's Lost Wonder

[@deja00]

Silence in great nature is one of my very favorites.

[@mf5531]

i love silence in nature. i talk to God and thank Him for this beautiful landscape. thank you for a really good video. and hello from the usa.

[@OceanRoadies]

You’re very welcome!

[@loliveira0]

Drone footage: Amazing!!!

[@melopd]

After being abandoned Drave is now mostly owned by the portugese scouts. Today it is a scouts base camp. If you visit the village during the weekends you will find lots of people there. Scouts and other visitors. During the summer it is a very popular (despite the 2 hour walk) river beach because of the various watterfalls and lagoons. The house that you see closed are actually in use. The have been rebuilt by the scouts. The mines ruins in Regoufe were the British mining complex. The German mining complex was close, in a village called Rio de Frades. Also worth a visit. Another popular river beach where you have to cross an old (but well maintained) mine tunnel to get the watterfall. Also a popular cannyoing destination.

[@OceanRoadies]

Thanks for the info!

[@jenaemarieAZ]

Scouts? Like boyscouts?

[@melopd]

@@jenaemarieAZ Yes.

[@mariacanto1871]

People who lived in these villages, had to walk long distances to the nearest cities to buy much needed supplies or see a doctor, they didn’t have reliable transportation like today they were lucky if they had a horse! Somehow they managed to make things work!❤

[@OceanRoadies]

And it went like this for over 500 years… Until the village just couldn’t keep up with the conveniences of modern society, leaving behind this magical moment in time.

[@yetty4032]

🤩🤩🤩wonderful place for meditation 🧘‍♀️ . There is always music 🎶 of nature .I enjoyed very much Thank you for sharing 💐

[@OceanRoadies]

You’re very welcome!

[@islabeya]

Thanks for sharing

[@santiagonavesgomez8332]

I enjoy

[@juliebooton1360]

I love the sounds of nature...rarely need anything else! Enjoyed the video and have added it to my hikes list. Thank you!

[@OceanRoadies]

Thank you, enjoy the silence!

[@regtitch5200]

Silence! is the best company 😊

[@OceanRoadies]

It was pretty enjoyable in this village for sure!

[@PepeLePauly]

Drave looks like a beautiful gem off the regular tourist path. Thanks for sharing! 😀

[@jenaemarieAZ]

I love solo hiking. I can hear the rustling of crickets and birds and lizards. Other wildlife such as coyote or deer (here in the desert). It’s so fulfilling.

[@Nulife23]

Wonderful to see! Thanks for the tour!

[@OceanRoadies]

You're very welcome!

[@isabelmorra3638]

So amazing! Thank you for showing me a village I had never heard of in my country! ❤️

[@OceanRoadies]

You're very welcome, love exploring unexplored places!

[@tinalisboa1874]

Lindo..., fantastic place in Portugal isolated but worth the bother, thank you for telling people about the Volfrâmio used in the WWII as most people don´t know about it, my mum used to tell me stories about it.

[@gunterbecker8528]

Something different for a change ,good on you young man

[@mariacanto1871]

Loved the video and the music too! Thank you for a job well done, I wish it was longer!

[@OceanRoadies]

Glad you liked it!

[@lisacraig5235]

Arouca so close to Porto and so far away. Very interesting.

[@OceanRoadies]

A wonderful region with lots to explore :)

[@kimberleybrown3107]

With silence you can feel a different sort of energy, as if the earth is breathing. I like to lie on my back and try to feel the energy pulsing through me.

[@jenaemarieAZ]

Nice!! You can reconnect with earth.

[@Winterbiker333]

Nice!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Wow that’s incredible. It’s so isolated. Loved your style of filming and your drone work. I wish people still lived there, but so cool to see. 🍻

[@OceanRoadies]

Happy you enjoyed!

[@jennybertenshaw7694]

Nice to hear your Dutch accent We (brits) lived in the Netherlands for 30 yrs I think someone else has told you that the village of Drave is used by the scouts as a base so not really 'lost' I was more interested in the story of the Brits and Germans who worked together in the other village As I live in Portugal now I must research that

[@andrevilhena4149]

Abraços!

[@offgridwanabe]

There is no such thing as silence listen very closely the sounds of life are everywhere.

[@OceanRoadies]

Well said!

[@arjanvogel6444]

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love you.

[@arturpires532]

I grew up in the mountains in a stone village 20kms from Nazaré PT

[@kittymisshello]

Ques your dutch ?? Portugal is the most wonder full country I lived in !! The silence is the most wonder full noise there is !! Bedankt voor je verslag .

[@OceanRoadies]

Graag gedaan ;)

[@VIRIATO-VIRIATHUS]

As aldeias abandonadas são cada vez mais numerosas. A aldeia de Fontão de Loriga é maior do que essa.

[@unicorntv1232]

Camera work. Slow down the camera movement. So we can see what u r filming. Otherwise excellent content. 👍

[@ironfistarrival]

Silence is a Blessing ,and I wish I could live in the nature where there are no harmful Human creatures to cause wars and hatred and many other Nad things .

[@OceanRoadies]

Not all humans are bad I think. As I said in the video on Lousa’s schist villages: as much as I love nature, I love seeing people come together even more.

[@mf5531]

yes! but i would like to have my dog with me . and maybe even a cat, too.

[@christineelisabethschmidtg8063]

It is perfecto the pool the little forest.it can be used for chicken farm gunea chicken or brahmas

[@deja00]

10:38 I am surprised by the multitudes of fish. Must be trout, I guess?

[@ptog]

Do you know you can buy a village like that in Portugal nowadays?

[@OceanRoadies]

Not sure about buying an entire village! You can check on re/max for properties in these kind of regions. I did found a house for sale in one of Lousa's schist villages (see my video on that). Partly abandoned, still very serene environment.

[@carlosvictor8679]

🙂

[@Rose-sn5eg]

I will volunteer to stay there als villeges care taker,!! 💋💘🌹

[@lucaspierce2072]

Anybody know the song in the intro?

[@OceanRoadies]

Across The Great Valley - And Then We Fell from the Sky

[@marioandre7351]

During ww2 Portugal was doing business with the British and the Germans. Spies were there and in towns like Cascais and were not working a peace like you said.

[@OceanRoadies]

I got the info from this article on the mines while on the road: www.e-konomista.pt/minas-de-regoufe-arouca/ , but I'm sure the whole situation is more complex.

[@tatianaschoenfield9819]

When was the village abandoned?

[@OceanRoadies]

The last inhabitants left around the year 2000.

[@aurelio3525]

Due to his inaccessible location, youngsters start leaving to migrate to make a living as you know working the land isn't for everyone and as the elders start dying no one wanted to comeback ence getting abandoned, also there are stories about radiation exposure emanating from the open mines of volframium an tungstenium opened by Brits and Germans, with people getting sick due to water been contaminated aswell. Good to see people going back there, but I would take a Geiger counter with me, these villages were abandoned for a reason, be careful very careful out there

[@unicorntv1232]

Sped up driving footage. Dizzy. I can’t watch. And the the drone turns upside down. Lol.

[@unicorntv1232]

Dizzy making. Sped up drone footage. Intro.

[@jessem2169]

This opening has got to go! Nobody cares about your drone

[@mf5531]

i thought his drone was awesome. it was one of the reasons that drew me to his channel.